Fears ISIS kids will return to Britain to ‘commit atrocities’ and unleash terror on UK streets

Top counter terror cop warns 'a child in a war zone would have seen some pretty horrendous things' and as a result all children returning from Syria and Iraq are checked on a case-by-case basis

By John Shammas

1st February 2018, 11:36 am

Updated: 2nd February 2018, 1:16 pm

BRITAIN'S leading counter terrorist police officer has today warned children trained by Islamic State monsters could return to the UK to "commit atrocities".

The head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dean Haydon, said that as a result of the growing threat, all those returning to Britain from Iraq and Syria are assessed on a case-by-case basis.